Mark Cornell, a college student working part-time for a private investigator, is sitting outside a building waiting to take photos for a divorce lawyer when the woman in question is thrown from a sixth floor window. When Mark learns that "Anne Malloy" had died months before, he goes on the trail to discover who this woman is and who killed her. The novel is set in the 70's , in other words, pre-Internet, so all of Mark's detective work is done the hard way.

In the beginning, I liked this novel. I like his writing style, his characters, and I was intrigued by the idea of setting a novel in the days before the Internet. We've become so accustomed to TV detectives as well as our favorite detectives in novels just sitting at a computer that the idea of someone getting back out there and detecting the old-fashioned way was a well, a novel approach. Sorry for the pun. Unfortunately, at some point, there were too many characters at once and the plot quickly became too tangled for me to understand. It's things like this that bring a 5 star novel down to a 3 for me.

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